colorado right to life
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Reproductive Health Equity Act seeks to expressly codify abortion right in state law
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Democratic state lawmakers want to put a final stamp on the right to an abortion by expressly codifying it some 55 years after it became legal in Colorado. Opponents are already gearing for a legal challenge, should it become law. Members of the majority party introduced House Bill 22-1279, the Reproductive Health Equity Act, on Thursday. Sponsored…
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Today’s other march — for ‘abolition’ — parts ways with some anti-abortion allies
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While abortion opponents rallied to “celebrate life” at the Capitol last weekend, some others will “march for abolition” today outside a Denver abortion clinic – displaying starkly different approaches and a division within the movement’s ranks. The anti-abortion activists who will gather at 10 a.m. at the Planned Parenthood at 38th Avenue and Potomac Street in…
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Anti-abortion extremists host protest on day of Women’s March, steal anti-slavery language
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If you get lost on your way to the Women’s March this Saturday and find yourself walking past the “March for Abolition,” don’t expect to hear any homage paid to Frederick Douglass, Nat Turner or Harriet Tubman. The so called “Colorado Right To Life” organization has foolishly appropriated language rooted in the anti-slavery movement in…
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DeGette: Subpoena Trump official who denied abortion to immigrant teen
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WASHINGTON – Colorado U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette is calling on leadership of the House Judiciary Committee to subpoena Department of Health and Human Services officials who denied a 17-year-old rape victim from Mexico a right to have an abortion. The girl was an illegal immigrant being held in federal custody in Texas. The Health and…
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YESTERYEAR: Colorado represented in national party leadership, albeit controversially
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Different times, they were, but so much the same … Twenty Years Ago This Week in the Colorado Statesman … Coloradans were in a proud position. The state’s very own were to head both of the nation’s major political parties. Gov. Roy Romer acknowledged that his new post as general chairman of the Democratic National Committee –…
